International Business Machines Corporation

Friedemann Baitinger

Jeffrey Alan Frey

Jerry Wayne Stevens

Joseph M Gdaniec

Ingo Adlung

Christine Axnix

Friedrich Michael Welter

Frank Scholz

Bruce H Ratcliff

Peter Bergersen Yocom

Stephen R Valley

Patricia G Driever

Lap Thiet Huynh

Constantinos Kassimis

Andreas Bieswanger

Stefan Amann

Angelo Macchiano

Kimberly Tekavec Bailey

Viktor Mihajlovski

Juergen Saalmueller

Carl Mayer

Gerd Breiter

Gerhard Banzhaf

Michael Man Behrendt

Dirk Bolte

Helmut H Weber

Andrea Schmidt

Gerald Kreissig

Andreas Arnez

Martin Kuenzel

Stefan Wirag

Karlo Petri

Jeff A Frey

Kurt Heinrich Naegele

Deploying a software service. A defined software service offering is selected from a plurality of defined software service offerings. An instantiation order for deploying the selected defined software service offering on a corresponding computer system is generated. Each defined software service offering comprises a software service definition and at least one defined software policy. One selected from the group consisting of the software service definition, the software policy, and a combination thereof, provides a hardware configuration for the software service, a software configuration for the software service, and a managing policy for the software service. The instantiation order of the software service for execution on the computer system is created based on the hardware configuration, the software configuration and the managing policy.

Method, arrangement, computer program product and data processing program for deploying a software service

An integrated hybrid system is provided. The hybrid system includes compute components of different types and architectures that are integrated and managed by a single point of control to provide federation and the presentation of the compute components as a single logical computing platform.

Management of a data network of a computing environment

Ensemble having one or more computing systems and a controller thereof

Integration of heterogeneous computing systems into a hybrid computing system

A method and corresponding apparatus is provided for determining the location of a configuration server being connected to a totally symmetric network infrastructure that does not exhibit any symmetry breakers on network level. The configuration server reaches a decision to determine its network-wide unique configuration in order to be able to serve controllers. This decision depends on the plug position of the configuration server under consideration and the assumption of plugging rules governing a 'good' network infrastructure. The controllers periodically send network packets that will be marked if they traverse specific connection elements in the network. The origin and the path of a network packet can be determined. The decision making is based on a majority function based on the packets received by the configuration server. If a decision cannot be made, then errors in the cabling structure can be detected.

Network and method for the configuration thereof

A method for accessing I/O devices in embedded control environments is provided, wherein said I/O devices are remotely attached to an embedded microprocessor. By mapping said I/O devices' resources to said microprocessor's address or memory address space, existing device drivers can be reused and the time-to-market capability is greatly improved.

Method and system for efficient access to remote I/O functions in embedded control environments

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing reconfiguration of network elements after a failure of such an element. A method for managing network configuration data, i.e., usable for automatic reconfiguration of server computers (A,B), is disclosed in which location and current status information about a client or controller computer (A . . .C) is sent out such that a respective server type computer (A,B) may receive it and automatically reconfigure itself after temporary disruption.

Extension of the BOOTP protocol towards automatic reconfiguration

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Jettingen, Germany

Friedemann Baitinger